leave
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She remains on a leave of absence while the council evaluates all of the facts surrounding the incident, Sausalito Mayor Steven Woodside said in a Tuesday evening statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
"I'm a regular kid from west Belfast, from an Irish-Ghanian background. I'm nothing special, but just want to leave a legacy the next generation can aspire to."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Fuller's model suggests that the combined kicks could leave a dying star moving in a random direction at about 1 kilometer per second.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
The trade brawl could leave both countries with more bruises than a hockey fight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
It’s after Gran and Uncle John leave that I have a stroke of brilliance.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
“In most cases, the second spouse changes everything and leaves assets to their own children.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
According to the RMT, EMR has been sending trains into service that are "likely to fail and require a full reset which leaves the train with no active safety systems".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Yet there is no viable model of religious freedom that simply leaves everyone alone to follow his or her conscience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Whereas the poem ends with order restored, the film leaves history caught in an endless cycle of collapse, rebirth and forgetting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Some of the lines are silly—about how he hogged the pepperoni pizza at our birthday party, put an obviously recyclable cup in the trash, and often leaves his shoelaces untied.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Curly Leafed Collards: Those curly leaved varieties Smith mentions can make them look more like kale than the large, smooth leaves we typically think of with collards.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023
“As soon as all the trees leaved out, I was like, ‘I’m staying forever,’” she said of spring’s recent start, singing those last few words in a soprano vibrato.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Want to try out this delicately leaved vine?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
The etchings’ chief subject is nature’s bounty and mysteriousness, manifest in big, densely leaved trees and densely treed hillsides.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
For a moment I paused beneath a low, thickly leaved tree, looking down the well-kept doily-shadowed walks past the silent houses.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
The Education Department hasn’t yet calculated the final data against which institutions will be judged, leaving uncertainty on exactly what programs will face consequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Bitcoin may benefit from demand for assets operating outside conventional financial channels, but during sudden geopolitical shocks it often behaves like a high-risk technology investment, leaving it vulnerable to rapid selling when investors reduce exposure.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The National Federation of the Blind has called for a full pavement parking ban, arguing any parking on pavements "damages them in the longer term, leaving them in a worse state for pedestrians".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
If Finch didn’t want fans to know she was leaving until she had one foot out the door, it would make perfect sense.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
‘I was just leaving to collect Bubbe,’ he says.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
"I never felt that I was neat, tidy, presentable, or in the uniform that I was meant to be in," explains veteran Rhian Brown, who left the service in 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
One dollar got you nine and change if you left it there.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
That influx of money allowed them to sign the likes of superstar outfielder Juan Soto, who left the Bronx for Queens on a historic 15-year, $765 million contract last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“The ticket target has been set to cover all of the associated costs, so it’s unlikely there will be much left over,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The iron's passage left him alive and conscious but forever changed.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Vocabulary lists containing leave
"Growing Together" and "When I Grow Up"
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 5
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